Question about Mary

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The CCC says this:

What the Catholic faith believes about Mary is based on what it believes about Christ, and what it teaches about Mary illumines in turn its faith in Christ.

I understand what this is saying, but I’m stumped as to how to explain it to others! Can anyone help me put this into layman’s terms?

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Mary is like a purifier and beautifier.Mary is so close to Jesus more closer than anyoone else.Jesus loves his mother so much that He has given her certain priveledges.She has the power to make man’s imperfect prayers perfect.Few of us offer up perfect prayers.Mary took part in Jesus’s passion in a real way.We suffer when we see how Jesus suffered but Mary actually felt it.It says Mary’s heart was pierced with a sword.
 
  1. Mary was completely in tune to following God’s Will.
  2. Jesus most definitely kept the commandment: Honor thy Father and Mother.
  3. Jesus got his sinless humanity from Mary, because He made her that way, and that he is COMPLETELY Human (and Divine, ha!)
  4. did that help?
 
What the Church believes about Mary is grounded in the gospels.
Jesus proved the efficacy of Mary’s intercession at the wedding feast of Cana, when Jesus responded by granting her intercession for the wedding hosts even though, as He initially protested, it wasn’t yet time for miracles in His ministry. he didn’t argue that point, but rusted Him, and directed the servants to trustfully comply with whatever He required of them in response to her intercession. [John 2:1-11]

This is what the official Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches:

christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/church6.html

2674 Mary gave her consent in faith at the Annunciation and maintained it without hesitation at the foot of the Cross. Ever since, her motherhood has extended to the brothers and sisters of her Son "who still journey on earth surrounded by dangers and difficulties."28 Jesus, the only mediator, is the way of our prayer; Mary, his mother and ours, is wholly transparent to him: she “shows the way” (hodigitria), and is herself “the Sign” of the way, according to the traditional iconography of East and West.
 
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